Month: November 2012

Arrow Energy creates 13 Indigenous scholarships

Corporate
Published AuthorContributed
Arrow Energy has partnered with Griffith University, to create opportunities for Indigenous scholarships in Brisbane as part of a new statewide higher education project. Arrow Energy CEO Andrew Faulkner said the two-year agreement with Griffith, Queensland University of Technology and the University of Queensland, would create 13 new scholarships and was aimed at encouraging Indigenous […]

Recommending change in post-stroke speech therapy

Griffith Head of Speech Pathology, Associate Professor Elizabeth Cardell
Griffith Health
Published AuthorHamish Townsend
Investment in intense therapy for post-stroke patients with aphasia improves quality of lifefor survivors as well as significant savings to the hospital system. This is according to new research from Griffith University’s School of RehabilitationSciences due to be presented at this week’s Gold Coast Health and Medical ResearchConference 2012. Aphasia is the inability to communicate […]

An Iranian opera singer calls Australia home

Queensland Conservatorium
Published AuthorNicole Butler
ABC TV News reports on an Iranian woman who has pursued artistic freedom by leaving her home country to train in Brisbane as a solo opera singer. The report features Lisa Gasteen and Shirin Majd who is taking part in the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School, at Queensland Conservatorium. Watch the story on the ABC […]

General staff excellence

Fiona Saunders
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Published AuthorNicole Butler
Congratulations to our School of Criminology and Criminal Justice administration staff who are receiving recognition for their outstanding work. Fiona Saunders has won the Research Support Award at the Arts, Education and Law Group 2012 General Staff Excellence Awards, held at the Gold Coast campus this week. Fiona was recognised for her distinguished administrative and […]

The Man has met The Lady

Griffith Asia Institute
Published AuthorContributed
To long time Burma watchers, and countless others, it was an astonishing sight, enthusiastically conveyed by the international news media: two of the world’s most iconographic (not to mention photogenic) figures, both winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, embracing in Rangoon. It was the ultimate hero shot. Read the rest of the article by Dr […]